The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03
THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN.
HOW HE LEFT HIS BRIGHT REALM
TO SAVE A FALLEN WORLD.

Rev DR.. Talmage Thinks There Are
Many Inhabited Worlds Among the
Stars A Vivid Picture of His Idea
of Heaven Christ's Great Sacrifice
| in Descending to Earth.
| BROOKLYN, Oct. 1.-The capacity for a
still larger audience has been made at the
| Brooklyn Tabernacle An adjoined lecture
room has been built so that during the week
it is used by itself, but on the Sabbath it is
thrown into the main auditorium and filed
by those sitting or standing. Notwithstand-
ing the enlargement the crowds that go
away not able to get inside the building are
| greater this fall than ever before. To-day
the pastor explained appropriate passages
of Scripture Prof. Browne rendered upon
the organ the First Sonata in d Minor, Rit-
| ter The text of the sermon was from II.
| Corinthians, viii, 8: "Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
He was rich, yet for your sakeS He became
poor" Dr. Talmage said:
That all the worlds which on a cold win
ter's night make the heavens one great gilt
| ter are inhabitantless, is an absurdity.
| Philosophers tell us that many of these
| worlds are too hot, or too cold, or too rare
| fled of atmosphere for residence. But, if
not fit for human abode, they may be fit for
| beings different from and superior to our
selves. We are told that the world of
| Jupiter is changing until it is almost fit for
| creatures like the human race, and that
Mars would do for the human family with a
little change in the structure of the respira-
| tory organs But that there is great
| world swung somewhere, vast beyond inn
agination, and that it is the headquarters of
the universe, and the metropolis of immen-
sity, and has population in numbers vast
beyond all statistics, and appointments of
| splendor beyond the capacity of canvas,
or poem, or angel to describe is as certain
as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of
the astronomers, with their big telescopes,
have already caught a glimpse of it, not
knowing what it is. We spell it with six
letters and pronounce it Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen
centuries ago. He was the Kings son. 1t
was the old homestead of eternity, and all
its castles were as old as God Not a frost
had ever chilled the air Not tear had
ever rolled down the cheek of one of its in
habitants There had never been in it
headache, or sideache, or heartache.
There had not been funeral in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant. There had never
in all the land been woven black veil, for
there had never been anything to mourn
over The passage of millions of years had
not wrnkled or crippled or bedimmed any
of its citizens. All the people there were IN
a state of eternal adolescence. What floral
and pomonic richness! Gardens of per-
petual bloom and orchards in unending
fruitage. Had some spirit from another
world entered and asked, what is sin! what
is bereavement what is sorrow what is
death! the brightest of the intelli-
gences would have failed to give
definition, though to study the ques-
ton there were silence in Heaven for half
an hour The Prince of whom speak had
honors emOluments, acclamations, such as
no other prince, celestial or terrestrial,
ever enjoyed. As He passed the street the
inhabitants took off from their brows gar
lands of white lilies and threw them in the
wav. He never entered any of the temples
without all the worshipers rising UP and
bowling in obeisance. In all the professions
of the high days He was the one who evoked
the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot,
walking in loving talk with the humblest of
the land, but at other times He took chariot
and among the twenty thousand that David
spoke of His was the swiftest and most
flaming: or, as when John described
Him, He took white palfreY with what
prance of foot, and arch of neck, and roll of
name, and gleam of eye is only dlmly sug
gested in the Apocalypse. He was not like
other princes, waiting for the Father to die
u
an artist in Germany made picture for the
Royal Gallery representing Emperor Will
liam on the throne, and the Crown Prince
as having one foot on the step of the throne,
Emperor William ordered the picture
changed, and said: Let the Prince keep
his foot off the throne till | leave it"
Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father, What
a circle of dominion! What myrmidons of
admirers! What unending round of glo-
ries All the towers chimed the Prinses
praises OF all the inhabitants, from the
centre of the city, on over the hills and clear
down to the beach against which the ocean
of immensity rolls its blllows, the Prince
was the acknowledged favorite No won
der my text SAYS that ''He was rich.n Set
| all the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre,
build all the palaces of the earth in one AL
hambra gather all the pearls of the sea in
one diadem, put all the values of the earth
in one coin, the aggregate would not ex-
press his aff1uence. Yes, Paul was right.
Solomon had in gold six hundred and eighty
million pounds and in silver one billion,
Twenty-Five million three hundred and
seventy-seven pounds sterling. But a greater
than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire,
but the quadrillionaire of heaven. To de-
scribe his celestial surroundings the Bible
uses all colOrs, gathering them III rainbow
over the throne and setting them as agate
| Ill Jle Ueulpe WDluOW, anu ilOlSblIlB bNcINt
of them into a wall from striped jasper at
the base to transparent amethyst in the
capstone, while between are green of
emerald, and snow of pearl, and blue of
sapphire. and yellow of topaz, gray of
chrvsoprasuS, and fame of jacinth. All
the loveliness of landscape in foliage, and
river, and rill, and all enchantment aqua
marine the sea of glass mingled with fire
as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean.
All the thrill of music, instrumental and
vocal, harps, trumpets, doxologies. There
stood the Prince, surrounded by those who
had under their wings the velocity of mil
lions of miles in a second, rich in love, rich
in alteration, rich in power, rich in worship,
rich in holiness, rich as God.
But one day there was a big disaster in a
department of Gods universe. race
fallen A world in ruins Our planet the
scene of catastrophe A. globe swinging
out into darkness, with mountains, and seas,
and islands, an awful centrifugal of sin
seeming TO overpower the beautiful cen
tripetal of righteousness, and from it groan
reached heaven Such sound had never
been heard there. Plenty Of sweet sounds,
but never an outcry of distress, or an echo
of agony At that one groan the Prince rose
from all the blissful oircumjacence, and
started for the outer gate, and descended
into the night of this world. Out of what a
bright harbor into what rough
seal .'Stay with u.s. cried angel
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